You need to offload database information into small text files for use by financials analysts using Excel spreadsheets. After due analysis, you choose to save a COMPUTE BY statement as text. Will this work?
Answer – No. Embedded nonnumeric characters will cause a failure.
(The COMPUTE BY results include the word “sum.” This nonnumeric result will most likely cause a comma- or tab-delimited file to fail to load in another application.)